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Education: A Better World For Our Children

Education is a mark of progress. Together with some rich nations around the world, each developing country strives to collaborate and invest on education, the simple way of creating a good and motivated workforce. An educated society is an investment of citizenship.

This new year 2011, the teaching habit of “I Share” revolves in various communities, as everyone: rich and poor alike, work hand in hand toward educating the young; and the future generation.

Fidelino “Daddy” Benzon (serving Paranaque City, ex-councilor, an advocate for educating the poor) tells about how anyone of us can help children and/or youth be sent to school through various projects. One of them is the “Send a Poor Child to School,” that is a project of the Rotary Club of Paranaque East. The project intends to provide basic education to poor and deserving children by way of extending financial assistance or subsidy to cover school expenses, other than tuition fees.

“Education is the road to a better world for our children,” D. Benzon says. “I am reminded of our persevering laundry woman of many years, who was hell-bent on sending her eldest daughter to a nursing school. She borrowed a sum of money to buy a piglet for fattening. Every morning, before reporting to work, she would collect slops as food for her piglet from neighboring subdivisions. The money that will be derived from the sale of the pig was meant to be used for the college education for her daughter.”

The Department of Education now and in the past, believes that poverty can be fought by building the capacity of students, and the curriculum of going back to the basics of reading, writing, arithmetic, values formation and more.

P-Noy’s stronger planks were educational reforms. Also, former Senator R. Roco (may God rest his soul, another advocate for good education), asserts that each person can learn and share with all the equal opportunity to continue learning and reap the benefits of education. This makes education to be a public and private partnership.

According to F. Benzon, “The Rotarian’s vision of individually or collectively doing their utmost to send some of these poor children to school,” upholds the Rotary’s (Paranaque East) objective to alleviate poverty; hence, increase the rate of literacy, as well, as assist in the manpower development in the community.

At present, there are 26 grantees from three public schools namely, Moonwalk National High School, Dr. Arcadio Santos National High School, and Sun Valley Elementary Schools, among others. The levels of grantees are in the third and fourth year high schools, and the fifth and sixth grades. This program was started during the school year 2010-2011 and is the flagship project of RCPE (Rotary Club of Paranaque East).

“Of course, education has always been a top priority of every Filipino. Most parents sacrifice a lot in order to provide good education for their children. Let us provide a better world for our children,” D. Benzon closes.

The Rotary Club of Paranaque East (R.I. District 3830) Officers are Beda L. Melgar is president, Ramel R. De Mesa is vice president (internal), Fidelino G. Benzon is vice president (external), and Larry N. Carino is secretary, among others.

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Information Product Creation: Never Compete on Price Because There Is Only One You

Information product creation requires extensive preparation, no matter which niche you work within and you want to make sure that your information product has a successful launch. That probably sounds scary and intimidating but here’s the thing: this is a one time effort and it will pay off in a foundation that is strong enough to get your ideal clients to invest in your high-end programs and services without the perils of a traditional funnel. This article will teach you a few of the things that you need to remember if you’d like to invest in yourself and start on the information product creation path using your unique talents and abilities. Remember that you never have to worry about anyone ripping off your ideas because if you understand how to properly position yourself around your story.

Understand Both Strengths and Weaknesses: It is good to have an impartial view of your own strengths and weaknesses when lay the foundation of selling yourself within the information product creation process. It helps you figure out where you are, what you lack and how to move forward so that you get as much growth as possible. It is more than important, it is urgent if you want to create fast success for yourself to have personal positive reinforcement and deep belief to provide yourself the support you need so that you can get over your own limitations to ensure that your information product is as valuable as it can be.

You also need to know exactly who your competition is so you can study them and use their methods to help you improve your own standings. Down recreate the wheel, but understand the wheel and position yourself going uphill from the competition. Check out which kinds of opportunities you’ve already got and try to figure out how best to use them while taking care to remember your strengths and weaknesses. This is a great way to figure out where you stand against your competition which helps you figure out how best to grow.

Launch on Time: No matter what, even if you haven’t officially announced your “launch date” you should launch the site when you’ve said you would. This will force you to stick to your goal and actually work on it. Thinking that “I’ll launch it when I think it’s ready to launch” will only hinder your efforts. You’ve got a responsibility that you need to live up to with your launch, and you can’t move back on that one. If you get close to your launch date and you are getting hung up on your self limiting beliefs in your information product creation, don’t worry this about getting it out there and not perfection. As long as it is usable you should launch it. Launching on time is the professional thing to do and it is more important than creating a “wow” effect in your site visitors. You can always update/upgrade your website when you have to, so there shouldn’t be any issue with that.

Analyze Your Own Concept: If you want to make your information product creation successful you need to understand how good your concept is: is it really going to work for your chosen audience or would something else be better? You already know about your competition; how does your concept measure up? If you haven’t come up with your own idea and are trying to work with someone else’s concept, do some more work on your own before your launch. People want original ideas because they’ve seen too many other me-too websites already.

Test Your Concept Before You Commit To The Information Product Creation Process: One of the biggest failures people have with information product creation is not testing an idea before putting a lot of effort into producing an information product. PPC to a small 5 page site with a landing page is a great way to test an offer before you even produce it. If people will sign up to get it, you can be sure that you can create an information product that will target eliminating the pain of your target market. The small amount of money will be invaluable in using crowd sourcing to direct the final outline of the information product creation process.

You’ll have lots of hurdles to clear after the launch of your information product and the only way to truly take care of them is to follow the advice in this article to work smarter. Plenty of people work hard, but it is the ones who work smarter who make real money online with the information product creation business model.

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Online Home Based Business – How To Build A Six-Figure Online Empire Within 1 Year

If you want to start an online home based business, the chances that you want to only earn a part-time income are low, since most who start their own business are looking to at least earn six-figures per year. There is good news and bad news about this however; the good news is that anybody can easily build a six-figure work-from-home business, the bad news is that you’ll have to take some massive action in order to get the results. If you are driven to build this kind of income from your home-based business, then let’s take a look at the steps required to put yourself on track to earn six-figures within your first year online.

#1 – Write an eBook to sell or giveaway

Every online business will need an introductory product, which for new online business owners can be a simple ebook. The eBook is a great introductory product because they are easy to create and easy to give away to your potential customers. This can be a free product you give away or you can sell it for a low-price, around $10-$30

#2 – Use the eBook as a template for an audio and video product

Many people won’t be willing to spend huge sums of money on your business, but many will be willing to pay up to $100, so your goal should be to target these customers with a quality audio or video product that is sold anywhere from $75-$100. Selling just one of these products daily can earn you close to $40,000 alone every single year. This is not going to put you above 6-figures, but it is a great product price to get you comfortable working from home. This product will also serve to be the introduction to your high-priced products.

#3 – Break the eBook into coaching lessons

The real key to online success is to have a “flagship” product that sells for a few hundred to several thousand dollars. While this won’t create hundreds of sales, with a nice pricetag all you need to do is sell a couple every month to put yourself in the six-figure per year range. Designing a $5,000-$10,000 product which deliver 1-on-1 coaching means you only have to sell 10-20 per year to be making six-figures, and your sales campaign will aggressively push your leads to purchase this product. Your other products will also act to be introductory of this flagship product.

This is truly the key to success with a home-based business. Create a wide-range of products with different price levels and work diligently to get your customers interested and buying them from you.

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